Martin Luther King Jr., who fought for equality and justice is considered dangerous in Cuba where he is admired and his dream lives on.

Roughly 60% of Cubans are either black or mixed race, what they would call here in America "people of color"

85% of all inmates in Cuban jails are black. The regime and the communist party are controlled by whites with no blacks in any positions of real power.

Blacks, as well as all Cubans, have no freedom of speech or assembly. They have not had free multiparty elections since Castro muscled into power.

They are subjected to an apartheid where they are not allowed to enjoy the island's bounty andnatural resources since these are reserved for tourists.

European "Sex Tourists" looking for trysts with dark skinned Cuban girls flock to Cuba to exploit young black and mixed race women who are easy prey because of their desperate situation with the regime's silent complicity.

Cubans today have to subsist on government rationed food and actually allowed to buy a monthly ration that is less than the slaves on the island received from their masters back in 1842.

Many of the islands leading dissidents, like Biscet, Roca, Cuesta Morúa, Fariñas, Ferrer, happen to be black or mixed race. Not that it matters to us Cubans but it should to blacks in the US.

Our Patron Saint, Our Lady of Charity, is dark skinned. Even her image is a representation of racial "diversity" since the virgin is looking over three sailors of different races.

Of course, in Cuba there were never any segregate lunch counters or buses and Batista , the last "head of state" before Castro, was mixed-raced.

Congressional Black Caucus members have visited Cuba and offered praise of President Fidel Castro. Some have pushed to end the embargo against Cuba and ease travel restrictions that prevent Americans from traveling there legally.

13 comments:

Excellent post! I have sent comments like this one to African American writers at the Miami Herald hoping they would write about Oscar Elias Biscet and other imprisoned black Cubans but it has fallen on deaf ears.

The saddest thing is that almost all the members of the Black Caucus are poisoning the minds of the African American community across the country and not working on taking them onto the road of progress. Therefore, they use kasstro as their posterboy, you have the likes of Jesse Shakedown Jackson, Chawlie "draft'em all" Rangel, Al "Pretty Hair" Sharpton, and many others as his accomplices. The guy who heads the Pastors for Piss, Lucius Walker. That sorry actor Danny Glover, the rebelious Spike "beaten up" Lee (dig his story at killcastro, the police in Cuba shouted at him, negro jinetero! cabron! haciendote el americano! and beat the living hell out him) and the ever famous, egregious "Dr" Louis Farrakhan from the Nation of Islam are all kasstro colostomy bag lickers. In the meantime, black Cubans are misrepresented in Goverment, they are the cannon fodder in the army forces where all the brass is overwhelmingly white, and they tend to live in sub-human conditions, not by choice, but because the government displaces them, and they are under the grip of a veritable apartheid. The alcoholism among blacks in Cuba is alarming. The penal population is almost exclusively black, the leading dissidents are the only group of the population where blacks are represented proportionally to their numbers. On the other hand, one could argue that all Cubans are subject to apartheid. But hotel workers tend to be white, since the government doesn't want "pesky niggers" around foreigners (I witnessed the former head of tourism in Varadero saying those words in front of me)I think that when they say on this shore of the Straits "mass migration!" what they are fearing is that most of the refugees would be black, as if they didn't have a reason to flee. A lot of balseros are black and mixed race. Look at the footage of the repatriations and you will see that the majority of the balseros who are sent back are black. I have had several arguments with people who tell me that "In Cuba there were not those many blacks, castro must have brought them from Angola".... Cuba was not perfect, but before it was transformed into kasstroland there was no segregation, and many blacks and mulattos were professionals, skilled workers, and upstanding members of the society and several religious and fraternal organizations. Do I have to mention here that che huevera was a racist who took an special care in killing black men with his own hands and who call Cubans "cubaniches" (in English it would be "Cubaniggers")?Do I have to mention that many brave men in the Escambray were black? There are many people who want to forget that our nation has a very important black component, as much as we are European, we are black too, even if not a single drop of African blood runs through our veins, that's our national identity.Listen to the band Free Hole Negros from the soundtrack of Habana Blues. Their song "Superfinos Negros" has the answer!(I will transform this into a post in my blog!)

Don't forget Mr. Dayo hijo de puta Belafonte, Maxine Waters, and Sheila Jackson to name a few more. These black Americans are traitors to America and thier race, their victimization policies, contrary to the ideals of the civil rights movement, have destroyed the black family and community. They are all a den of thieves.

Ziva touches -as always- the core of the matter: they go against the very same principles which guided the civil rights movement. All of those people are accomplices in whatever happens to all Cubans, black, white, Chinese, or mixed!

this is utter lies.. I was just in cuba and this is not true. My wife is cuban (recently moved from the isla) and she is black and she read your post and laughed.. NOT TRUE..

such utter hyperbole and stupidity.

I usually like this blog but this is right wing propoganda (are you not better than the people you claim to fight? )

Nowadays in habana, there is even a statue of MLK in Havana (in vedado).. like john lennon was banned in the 1970s in cuba now he is revered (there is john lennon park with corresponding statue . Also in vedado.

there is still racism in cuba , like in america, but its the older generation.. the state does not ban MLK books (at least anymore.)..